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BROKEN FOR THE HARVEST
"The seed on good ground..." —Luke 8:15
Gardeners know that newly tilled soil is necessary for a good harvest. What does that soil look like to a gardener? The soil is completely turned upside-down. It is broken up into clods. Yet such soil is optimal for making seeds sprout and grow.
Have you ever had a broken heart and felt like your life was turned upside-down, inside-out, and plowed over? Even now, are you in constant pain, with your life being one big upheaval? If so, then to Jesus, the Gardener (see Jn 20:15), you look beautiful. You are just like the good soil that has been tilled and worked over, ready for planting.
Right now, decide to offer your upside-down heart and your life full of upheavals to Jesus. You might be able to say with the psalmist: “Upon my back the plowers plowed; long did they make their furrows” (Ps 129:3). Jesus, however, looks at you and sees the potential for a miraculous, abundant harvest (see Mk 4:8). In your brokenness, you are in prime position to be the best soil, if you offer yourself to the Lord as good seedground. He will fertilize, nourish, and water you, caring for you with gentle love (see Lk 13:8). He can use your mixed-up, brokenhearted life to bear great fruit (see Ez 36:34ff). All you need is to guard against hardening your heart and thereby become the worst soil (see Lk 8:12). Offer your brokenness for His harvest.
Prayer: Jesus, make my heart like Yours. May nothing in my life go to waste. Redeem many through my pain.
Promise: God "is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords Who alone has immortality and Who dwells in unapproachable light." —1 Tm 6:15-16
Praise: The blood of the Korean martyrs, who numbered over one hundred canonized saints, has prepared the ground of Korea for a fast-growing Christian population.
(This teaching was submitted by a member of our editorial team.)
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